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...effect have given them a status close to citizenship. For six days they will undergo health examinations. Then they will be placed in the Jubilee Reception Center, where all refugees must be processed before going off to any of four camps: Argyle 3 and 4, or Kai Tak East and North. Like the Jubilee center, all are located on Kowloon Peninsula. In the camps the children will go to school, kill time, and wait for a sign from France, England or America...
...target of Chun's current and most ambitious crusade is what many Koreans call saba-saba, (or cheung tak). They refer to the endemic tissue of favoritism, cronyism and influence peddling that pervades the country's business and political life. Chun kicked off the drive at the opening of the newly elected National Assembly earlier this month, where he denounced politicians for "engaging in cunning maneuvers to curry favor with voters." He also made sure that members of his Cabinet, including Prime Minister Nam Duck Woo, were the first to take the patriotic pledge...
...Syrians, who have always tak en a proprietary interest in neighboring Lebanon, still have 22,000 peace-keeping troops in the country. Most of the Syrian soldiers are in predominantly Muslim sectors, and Damascus has tended to support the Muslim-Palestinian cause. Syria also arms and trains one of the main P.L.O. guerrilla groups, Saiqa...
There was nothing extraordinary about Lili's camaraderie with the secret police. After all, Soviet society, including the literary salons, was riddled with spies, as Nadezhda Mandelstam, the widow of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, recalled in her magnificent memoir Hope Against Hope. Had Mayakovsky not tak en his own life, he would surely have fallen victim to such informers, as Mandelstam and hundreds of other writers did during the Great Purges of the late '30s. But who could be held accountable for his actions? asked Nadezhda Mandelstam. Her answer may apply to all the characters...
Rachel Sweet: Fool Around (Stiff/Columbia) and Lene Lovich: Stateless (Stiff/Epic) arrive via England from that paragon of excellent eccentricity, Stiff Records, where these young women are not only la-belmates but exemplars of the two extremes of rock vocal styles, contemporary female division. Lovich seems to have tak en vocal seminars from Nico and Patti Smith. Her songs (many co-written by Lovich) are feckless threnodies about lovelessness, entrapment and alienation. Sweet, who is sunnier in disposition, lays down a sort of teasing, jailbait rock that relies on snappy melodies and gum-cracking sensuality...